I came to teaching the way most interesting people come to their calling — not in a
straight line. My path wound through graduate seminars, archival research, and a deep
conviction that the structures we build matter more than the talent we put inside
them. That conviction now lives in every IEP I write and every lesson I teach.
As a Specialized Academic Instruction (SDC) teacher of English and Study Skills at
Skyline High School, I work with students who require individualized support to access
grade-level content and build the academic habits that carry them beyond high school.
As IEP Case Manager, I coordinate the legal, academic, and human dimensions of each
student's plan — translating federal law into real outcomes for real people.
My background as an ABD doctoral candidate in History gives me something most
educators don't have: a framework for understanding how institutions work, how power
moves through systems, and how the rules of the game shape what's possible for the
people playing it. I bring that lens into the classroom every day.
I write on Medium because the patterns I study in archives show up everywhere — in
classrooms, in courtrooms, in the quiet bureaucratic decisions that determine whose
potential gets recognized and whose gets filed away.